On the Brink of Civil War

UKRAINE - Report 28 Jan 2014 by Vladimir Dubrovskiy and Dmytro Boyarchuk

Executive Summary The situation in Ukraine is unfolding unpredictably, and fast.The dictatorial laws that the authorities “approved” – according to the government’s official version – to scare people away from protests created the radical opposite effect: Ukrainians burst into the streets, seething with indignation. Though opposition leaders had a chance to channel this negative energy into something more constructive, such as an organized resistance to the Yanukovych regime, none of the three opposition leaders understood the mood of the protesters, who were effectively turned into crimina...

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